Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-08-19

At Hasting, Lewis Van Inwegen & Son
have made an assignment to i. 8. Follett
for the benefit OF their creditors.
Mr., Blaine has gone to Cork, whence be
will return to Dublin.
worth IS, 600, 900. Recently he went to
the Long Branch races with $50 and came
back with 1913. 49,
Mrs. Harvey Willis, OF Oswego, N. Y.
beat her mother Mrs. Raulinson, SO badly
that she died. H.. -. ~
Forest fires broke out in the vicinity 81
Neillsville, Wis. and are causing considera-
BILE damage. %s's ~
Gen. George Curtis Lee. president OF the
Washington and Lee university OF Virginia,
the Oldest son of the late Gen. Robert E.
Lee, is dangerously i'll.
Jerry Pagels, St. Louis murderer sen.
fenced to hang committed suicike in his
cell.
Prof. Thomas Baldwin Of Sanfrau sue.
cessfully repeated his feat Of jumping from
q balloon in mid air to the earth by the
aid OF his patentparachute. 1t is estimat-
Ell shat atleast 80, 900 people witnessed the
Jump. His fall is estimated at /, 100 feet
occupying one minute and twenty.f -four sec,
onds, and he landed in shallow water in the
bay.
Three firemen were instantly killed and
four badly injured at St. Louis by falling
walls. The dead are Barney McKernan,
Frank Mcdonald, Chris Hoell. The injured
are James O'Brien, fatally; jacob Feldt-
man, severely; William Zimmerman, &C.
verely; Mat De Fore, slightly.
The first vessel ever built on Lake Superb
or. was launched at Baraga, near Mar.
quette, in the presence OF tn ousands She will
carry !, 200, 900 lumber, and will load at
once, making one trip before getting her
spars.
Postoftices discontinued: Minnesota:
Cearfield, Stevens county. Name changed
Dakota: Brookfield, Moody county, to
Trent. Fourth.ciass postmasters ap.
pointed-Dak ota: Ferry, c. j. Newhouser;
Rio, j. Buchanan; Sogu, N. E. Slnds; Ar
gaville, NJ. r. Clancy; Colvin, H. II. Stand
ish.
A new secret organization known as the
"Brotherhood, in many respects similar
to the knights of Labor, has been formed
and has grown to considerable proportions
in New England. The organization does
not believe in strikes, but uses the ballot
and cooperative institutions as weapons
OF warfare. It also asks that the govern
ment obtain possession by purchase of all
John Clay, the only remaining son of
Henry Clay, died at his farm near Lexing-
ton, Ky. After dinner he went out to su-
perintend repairs on pump. While Civ
ing instructions to the workmen he fell
dead OF heart disease. Mr.. Clay was sixty
seven years old. He had no children. He
was married about twenty years ago.
An order was issued from the war de-
partment relieving Mai Daniel J. Bash
from duty until further orders, and direct
ing him to return to his home. Mai. Bash,
it will be remembered, is the army pay
master who WAS robbed of ST. $50 belong
ing to the United States while on his way
to Fort Mckinney, Wyo., to pay off the
understood that paymaster Bash is
relieved from duty until the amount is
made good to the government, as this is
the custom in the army in case there is q
deficit in pay officers accounts. His
bondsmen will be held responsible unless
relief is secured from congress.
The police OF Chicago think they have
discovered clue to the motives leading
to the horrible murder OF William Camp
bell, a wealthy cattle man who was brut-
ally murdered at Mcpherson, Kan.
The free delivery system has been order
ed to be established at GAINESVILLE. Wis.,, tho
service to commence Oct. l.
At Butte, Mont, W. P. Schusle, an old
Philadelp hian, shot himself dead. He had
lost 500 on Butte horse races and other
gambling and in despair ended his life.
The following pensions have been grant
ed: Minnesota: Widow j. B. Kinsley
Owatonna, original; A. Kenasten, Smiths
PSrl TEL =.
holm: St: Paul; H. Conrad, Kustar; M.
Keogh Cordova; P. Kearns, Minneapo.
lis. Wisconsin: J. NJ. Menor, Eau
Claire NJ II. Sherman, Eau Claire; n.
Lamphere, kekoskee; A. c. Cole, Wilton
E. Cheeseboro, Badger Mills; L. H. Michel,
New London; N. B. Hood, Lone Rock
Dakota: E. Burnham. Millville; H. Deney.
Jr., Florence A. J. Dickinson, Huron.
States engineer, recommends the fol.
lowing appropriations: Twenty thous-
and dollars for Kenosha har-
Dor, Wis; $4,000 for Racine, Wis.
$50, 900 for Milwaukee harbor; 5000 600
for harbor OF refuge at Milwaukee bay, and
$4,000 for the improvement OF the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers, Wis. OF the Fox
river he says that the mills during the Pc
Rod OF low water take more than the sur
plus water from the pools above the Ap-
pleton and Menasha dams, thus reducing
the levels OF Lake Winnebago and little
Lake Butte des Morris, making navigation
precarious. The evil is increasing, and il
it cannot be checked the improvement OF
the river should not continue.
Good rains have checked the Wisconsin
forest fires.
At Melrose, Mont, z. C. Maddaux, g.
prominent merchant got into an alterca-
ton with 0. A. Clay ton and Charles Pow.
ers, ranchmen. A shooting ensued in
which Maddaux was fatally shot through
the body by Clayton. Powers was shot
through the hand.
Three persons were fined in Washington
Tor swearing.
A test Was made at the Edison electric
light works St. Paul, OF using petroleum for
fuel and the result was quite satisfactory.
two boilers, and fifty pounds was secured
in less time than thirty pounds in two and
one-half tons OF coal. The oil is elected
into the irebox by steam in an atomized
spray, making a very hot fire. It is
claimed that there is a saving of twenty to
twenty five per cent. in the cost of fuel be-
sides labor and time.
The Rev. w. w. Dowley OF Gloversville,
N. Y, who had just been called to the
passionate Of the Woodland Park Baptist
church, St. Paul, will begin his labors with
this church the first Sabbath in Septem.
her.
- Four boys, whose ages ranged from
fourteen to eighteen years, and a
colored man were corralled at St. Paul
One of tho boys acted as spokesman, and
said they were from WHEELING, w. Va and
were on their way to tho plains, where
theo could kill Indians and buffalo to their
hearts content. They had been informed
thut ST. Paul was besieged by hostile In
dams, and had come to offer their services.
John v Wrightof Tennessee, mas been
appointed chief of the mineral land divis.
ion in the general Office, vice Jacob Ere
lich, appointed financial clerk OF the pat
ent office.